THE NATIVE REBELLION.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 181, 26 June 1869, Page 4

THE NATIVE REBELLION.

CAPTURE OP THE REBEL CHTEP TAUROA, AND 122 MBIT, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN. Mk Booth arrived in town late last evening, bringing intelligence that the expedition up the Patea river had succeeded in capturing the rebel chief Tauroa, 46 men, and 75 women and children. The men were armed, but were very short of ammunition. No resistance was offered. They were brought down to Patea yesterday in about twenty canoes which were looted. Mr Booth comes down, we suppose to ascertain the instructions of the Government x'elative to the prisoners, and of course to contract for a supply of food and clothing. Next to Tito Kowaru, Tauroa is the biggest rebel in the district, and should have been shown no quarter.—VV anganui Times , June 17.

By the arrival of the s.s, Itangatira, which put in here on Monday morning last, through stress of weather, we have later news relative to the capture of rebels at Patea. The Rangatira left Wanganui on Saturday for Wellington, but owing to the severe weather experienced in the Straits, she was compelled to take shelter in the Sound. We are indebted to the purser for files of Wanganui papers up to the 19th instant. The Wanganui Herald of the 18th gives the details of the surrender, on the Patea river, of the rebel chief Tauroa and his people to Major Noake and Mr Booth, numbering in all 111—43 men, the remainder women and children. Amongst them were the following leading chiefs, viz., Kireona, head of the tribe, but one who has never given in bis allegiance; Tauroa, of Hukatere, and his father, Poaha; and Eiari, chief of Manutahi. Thirty-three stand of arms and one revolver were taken, but the rebels were nearly out of ammunition. The prisoners were conveyed in canoes to Patea, while the troops had to tramp it. From accounts given by the Wanganui Times it would appear that

these prisoners were treated to the best of quarters while the troops had to seek lodgings for themselves in the Patea as best as they could, at their own expense—a proceeding which, if true, certainly appears strange, and is attributed by that paper to the influence of Mr. Booth. The effect of this bloodless triumph will, we hope, be beyond what a successful slaughter would hare achieved, in inducing other tribes to give in their submission; a result, however, that would all the more readly be accomplished by still pushing on operations vigorously in the field, for it is evident that a great portion of the rebel tribes are now exhausting and wavering.— Press. AN ORDERLY SHOT BY HAUHAUS. Napier, June 14. A despatch from Lieutenant-Colonel-Her-rick, dated June 10, reports that the orderly coming up with despatches was shot between Kiwi and the Lake Camp. He had started in company with Carpenter that morning from Wairoa, with despatches for Lieut.-Colonel Herrick and a lot of letters landed by the Sturt. He was fired at by about seven Hauhaus. The orderly, whose name was Newnham, lately stationed with No 3 division at Poverty Bay, was shot dead. Carpenter’s was also shot dead, and he escaped by jumping on the orderly’s horse and galloping back to Kiwi Camp. The Hauhaus tomahawked the orderly and ransacked his pockets.